Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017)
by adrianN on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:04AM
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The golden age of chat was back when you could use one client to talk to all your friends despite them being on ICQ, AIM, MSN, IRC or half a dozen smaller networks.
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Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017)
by vardump on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:06AM
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Trillian! It was nice to use a single client for ICQ, MSN and others.
Universal availability and plain one-to-one & group chat removes most of the issues. Less important to support things like file transfer, voice chat, etc.
Who could combine Skype, WhatsApp, FaceTime, Hangouts, Discord, Microsoft Teams/Skype for Business, etc. and do it in such a fashion I can trust it.
Damn, I don't like government regulation, and when it comes to chat I'm frankly scared — I don't think they could resist the urge of adding backdoors in the process. But who else could put some pressure on the vendors to get these things to interoperate?
Re:Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017)
by wlesieutre on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @09:02AM
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Adium for the Mac folks! The website is still there (https://adium.im/) but the version history page is an error and the product blurb talks about AIM support, so I'm guessing it's dead.